Yesterday the long awaited WP 2.0 was released and I’m trying to backup my database. It complains that the backup directory isn’t writable, and I don’t seem to be able to do anything about it. I’ve tried to make directories under wp-content writable but to no avail. Possibly I’ve succeeded to mess things up.

[Edit] I did it! I followed the very precise instructions for upgrading, althoug I already had the RC2 installed. I made a backup of my database with the backup plugin and a backup of all directories in my WP installation, disabled all plugins and deleted all files and directories except the wp-content directory and the wp-config.php config file. I then copied the wp 2.o distribution to my server blog directory. Finally I run the wp-admin/upgrade.php script from my browser. I checked my permalink structure and as I’m not using any .htacess file, it worked as before.

Now, as I have installed the 2.0 RC-1, Iâ€™ll have to test this new feature for inserting images into the posts. In the Post Writing GUI it should be possible to insert an image easily.

Letâ€™s see!

Well Iâ€™ll have to upload an images first. The upload didnâ€™t work at first, the complaints being: Unable to create directory /home/petitpub/public_html/petitpub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads.

As I suspect that a new directory created by â€œthe serverâ€ will have the owner of â€œnobodyâ€ Iâ€™ll start by creating it myself from my FTP client and test again. ( I woudn’t be able to delete nobody’s dir )

Well now itâ€™s complaining that i cannot create uploads/2005 – retour. and then again /12 for December. Pah!

Well after hand crafting the directory structure I finally got the image uploaded, but â€œthe uploaded file could not be moved to $file (!!)
And – I cannot find it anywhere. Hmmm… After consulting Datakultur ( my ISP ) for the correct setting of access flags for the web server to write to the directory, the image was uploaded and I was able to drag it to the post.

Earlier I changed the WP directory from wordpress to blog.
Posting by email has lately resulted in error messages from MySQL
stating some SQL error.
I’ve now changed the upload directory in WP accordingly.